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By 2030 we are going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water resources globally.
This massive drought is likely to kill a few billion people around the world before the massive global famine will get the rest of us.
40% of arable land has already been depleted and 95% will be by 2050.
And this is just water and food.
Once arctic ice sheet coverage gets below 1,000,000 square kilometres, the planet will be absorbing more heat than it reflects. This is called a Blue Ocean Event and this will trigger the Clathrate Gun Hypothesis
2024 Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28 million square kilometers.
Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing and Fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year.
So it's basically a race between if the drought and famine will kill us all first, or the BOE setting off the Clathrate Gun will. Either way, it is unlikely the human race survives the century.
(Edited to trim that weird BOE link that didn't format fully and to combine that dought/famine sentence so it parsed better.)